Ash-sifter.



A. L.RUNDELL.

ASH SIFTER.-

' (Application filed Oct. 28, 1901.)

Patented Sept. 2 I902.

(No Model.)

M N/55553; y 6- z UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT I1. RUNDELL, OF PROVIDENCE, RIICDE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO EARL -Gr. DAVIS, OF PLAINFIELD, CONNECTICUT.

ASH-SIFTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 708,257, dated September 2, 1902.

Application filed October 28,1901. Serial No. 80,334- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: ashes and cinders, respectively. A frame Be it known that I, ALBERT L. RUNDELL, a comprising three bars jj j extends hrizon citizen of the United States, residing at the tally between the sides 0 c of the casing in a city of Providence, in the'county of Provitriangular form, the bar j being situated in 5 dence and State of Rhode Island, have in a plane centrally of the neck or pointsff and vented certainnew and useful Improvements the other two bars 3" j havingtheir ends restin Ash-Sifters, of which the following is a ing on two horizontal strips 1' i, secured to the specification. side walls 0 c, with strips k is inclined between The object of my invention is to provide an the ends of said bars and secured to the said 1o ash-sifter arranged to automatically separate walls of the casing.

the ashes from the cinders. B designates a wire screen that is mounted The invention consists of a casing inclosing upon the aforesaid frame of the casing and a cuneiform screen upon which the material having its outer edges secured to the bars to be sifted is discharged, with two independjj j and said strips 76 k, and this screen when 6 5 I5 ent drawers to receive the ashes and cinders, in position upon the frame, as described, is respectively, ofv such construction and arcuneiform andhaving its two sides inclined rangement of parts as hereinafter described,,, parallel with the upwardly-sloping walls of of and specifically pointed out in the claim. the casing.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Fig- C designates the upper drawer, adapted to 2o ure 1 represents a perspective view of the receive the ashes, having two opposite verticasing with its cover'thrown open as ready cal side walls m m and two transversely-into receive the material. Fig. 2 is a longituclined walls at n, inclosing a bottom 0, as dinal sectional view of the ash-sitter, showshown'in'Figs. 2'and 4. This drawer has an ing how the material operates while being extra transverse wall at, whose outer surface 2 5 sifted. Fig. 3 is a central vertical sectional is vertical and its inner surface inclined parview of the ash-sifter,,taken in line a: 00 0t. allel with the next inner wall 41. The rear Fig. 2. Fig. 4 represents a perspective view. transverse wall of the casing A is made to of the drawer which receives the ashes. Fig. incline opposite from the inclined wall a of 5 is a similar View of the drawer which -rethe drawer C and parallel with the rear in- 3o ceives the cinders. clined wall a of the same, as seen at n". This Similar letters of reference indicate similar drawer rests upon two extra strips it, secured parts in the difierent views of the drawings. to the side walls of the casing, and when the Adesignates the casing as a whole, of a rec draweris inserted the top edges of its inclined tangular form in top plan section and having walls a n are directly under the edges of the 5 a fiat base or-bottom b, from which the four transverse-barsjj of the screen-frame. The walls a o and d 01 project, the two opposite lonexposed inner surface of the casing is covered gitudinal or side walls 0 0 extending vertiby a metallic lining Z. cally from the said bottom to the top of the D designates the lower drawer, adapted to casing, and the two opposite lateral or end receive the cinders, having a bottom 10, with 4o walls 01 d extending vertically from the said projecting vertical side walls q q and vertical bottom of the casing to points e c, situated end walls 1 r, and this drawer is made somein a plane about midway of the height of what longer than the aforesaid ash-drawer the casing, and from these points the'said for the purpose of bringing the rear wall 0" walls 61 d slope inwardly to points ff, then beyond the inwardly-inclined portion n" of 5 5 outwardly-inclined to the top of the casing the casing. Each of the aforesaid drawers is in the manner as shown in Fig. 2. This casprovided with a metallic lining, as that of the ing is provided with an upwardly-swinging casing. From this description it will be readcover 9, hinged to the end wall d at a point ily understood that when the material to be h. An opening is provided in the vertical sifted is placed within the opening at the top 50 portion of the end wall 01 of the casing for the of the casing the material will spread over entering of two drawers, which receive the upon each side of the cuneiform screen, and

use and forms a simple durable construction and at the same time comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

Having described my improvement, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

In an ash-sitter, the combination, with a 20 casing the upper portion of which has inclined end Walls, of a cuneiform screen the sides of which are parallel with but separate from the inclined walls of the casing, an ash-drawer beneath the screen, said drawer having a chute in its forward end and an ash-compartment in rear of said chute, and a cinderdrawer beneath the ash-drawer, said cinderdrawer being of such length as to underlie the chute and extend beyond the ash-compartment, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT L. RUNDELL.

\Vitnesses:

DANIEL E. LocKE, ISAAC N. LINCOLN. 

